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Living with the work

Someone asked me offhandedly why I make art, and without thinking about it, I said for the company. I make things I want around me. Wonderfully unusual things ready to take me on momentary flights simply because I looked at them.

I live with my works. You might think I’d be so familiar with them that they wouldn’t surprise me anymore. But my perception is human, so engagement is automatic: my eyes simply flow along the serpentine curves, curiosity invites me to explore the ever-shifting streams of color. Every time I look at these they seem amid motion, winking in and out of solid form.

Tailwind Medusa at Woolard(1291)-crop-bi
Tide Strider & Intertidal 1(1460)-crop-b

I don’t usually release new work right out into the world. The making process is part focus and part opening. I want to experience amid the rhythms and routines of my days what came through when I was disciplined in effort, yet open to the unknown.

Artmaking is a journey. Good art reflects this, acts as a catalyst for others' ephemeral journeys in response.

 

Good art moves us, takes us in and opens us up beyond the ordinary everyday.

 

Fine  company indeed.

© 2026 by Shannon Belthor / Lumenhorse Studio. All rights reserved.

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